Domestic producers, joined by lawmakers from auto manufacturing states, were intensely critical of the action today.

During his tenure as editor and afterward, Kelly, who also wrote the TRB column, was intensely critical of President Clinton.

I would also guess that Mr. Gilbert, like certain other idealists, is at heart an optimist, if an intensely critical one, when it comes to the subject of art in the social sphere.

Early leaders of black studies were intensely critical of black colleges.

Both Schiavone and Zbyszko were skeptical, especially Zbyszko, who was intensely critical.

His work habits are forward-looking and he is intensely critical in the self-editing process.

So I.C.M. designed a schedule that gave Midori most of last October for out-of-town tryouts before a less intensely critical public.

He was intensely critical of the capping proposals in the Bill.

His poetry was admired by Wordsworth, although Coleridge was intensely critical, writing, "I absolutely nauseate Darwin's poem".

And I do offend people," he said, adding that his style was to be intensely critical, both of his students and of his colleagues' ideas.